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The Effects of Immigration on Wages: An Application of the Structural Skill-Cell Approach
Gerfin, Michael; Kaiser, Boris - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2010
This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … elasticities of substitution are used to simulate the impact on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677248
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The Effects of Immigration on Wages: An Application of the Structural Skill-Cell Approach
Gerfin, Michael; Kaiser, Boris - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 146 (2010) IV, pp. 709-739
This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800217
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Determinanti della domanda di laureati nell'industria manifatturiera italiana
Arrighetti, A.; Curatolo, S.; Lasagni, A. - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Parma - 2008
Tertiary education attainment of italian labour force, particularly in the manufacturing industry, shows empirically a large gap with respect to the other OECD countries, although human capital growth has been increasingly addressed as one of the main channel towards productivity, competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772815
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Remittances and the Wage Impact of Immigration
Olney, William W. - Economics Department, Williams College - 2011
This paper examines how the outflow of remittances affects the wages of native workers. The model shows that the wage … information on remittances and wages. As expected, the results indicate that a one percent increase in remittances depress the … wages of native workers by 0.06%. Furthermore, remittances predominantly affect workers in non-traded industries that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320017
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Adjustment capacity of labour markets of the Western Balkan countries
ECFIN, DG - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, …; … - 2008
unemployment. Wages, with some exceptions in specific sectors, do not seem to be mis-aligned with respect to productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008577528
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Education in the East, Emigrating to the West?
d'Artis Kancs; Kielyte, Julda - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2010
This paper examines the potential impacts of East-West migration of talents on the innovative capital and hence the long-run growth prospects in Eastern sending countries. Complementing previous studies, we examine the impact of high skill migration not only on the formation of human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456813
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Brain Drain, Remittances, and Fertility
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zo, Benteng - In: Economie Internationale (2008) 115, pp. 9-42
This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they want to raise and decide upon how many children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972585
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Brain drain, remittances, and fertility model
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - Institut für Mathematische Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2008
How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants’ origin countries? This question is analyzed within an overlapping generations model where parents choose the number of high and low skilled children they would like to have. Individuals migrate with a certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002271
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761640
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Why do we ignore the risk in schooling decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Serrano, Luis Diaz - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107054